nonspecific

Example Sentences

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These flows are nonspecific, meaning they can carry many types of proteins at once.

From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026

There’s also a reference to septicemia, which is writer-director Emerald Fennell’s perhaps too-technical stab at explaining the nonspecific Victorian disease that afflicts one character.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

Part of the reason chronic Lyme has always been controversial is that its symptoms are so nonspecific.

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2025

Amid whatever contentious points they wanted to score, presidents have nearly always reverted to some broad-minded but nonspecific celebration of diversity and pluralism.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2025

Or can we use a nonspecific fungicide without also killing the fungi that inhabit the roots of many trees in a beneficial association that aids the tree in extracting nutrients from the soil?

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson